Is this because I have a cheap guitar...

Whenever I pick one of the bottom three strings (G, B, & e), the top 3 strings rattle along with it.... this doesn't happen in well-made guitars, does it?

 

You mean the strat or the samick?

It's probably your tuners. That crap they build those Squiers with isn't worth a dime. I use locking Schallers, Grovers, and Gotohs... I do like the vintage Klusons. As for the Samick, I don't know what your model is. I do know Squier (depending on if it's made either at the Indonesia plant or Korea, etc.) buys cheap economy tuners bulk... that and you never know what the hell you're getting. I've seen eight piece Basswood bodies... I mean, what the hell.

Well, on my Gibby Les Paul, it's a reissue, so it had the old style deluxe tuners, it doesn't rattle, but I don't like the fact that they were light, so I put on some keystones...

As for acoustic, Santa Cruz, Schaller, or Waverly are my favorite.

 

It's the Samick. I've had no problems with my strat, even if it is a Squier. I love it.

How would I find out what kind of model it is ?

 

waht do you mean the twop three strings are buzzing? buzzing E minor? lol

 

no, they just rattle. im not worried about it though, ill just have to buy a better guitar.

 

Take my advice, for about $30-40 (around here) at the most, you take it to a guitar tech, ask them to check your action and give it a setup. If it isn't that, you need better tuners. I'm about 95 percent sure it shouldn't rattle after that. It could be that there's extra glue on a bracing or a bracing is loose. Can you find out where the noise is coming from?

It's generally that new guitars need setups to the player's preference... It'll happen to guitars even like Martins, Gibsons, and Taylors when they leave the factory...

 

Sounds like your NECK is loose!

 

My guitars are alot like that too. All guitars need maintainance, so your best bet is to take it to a tech and see what they think....

 

Ah, thanks. I'll be sure to do that soon...

 

Your guitar is obviously just being a funky bitch.

 

Haha.

Hey, you take care of your own guitars, right? Or do you take them into "professionals"?

 

i remember when i first got my guitar it worked fine but then after a month or so, after chaning strings, the string i would play would buzz heaps.

so i opened it up and fiddles around with truss rod and action and shit and eventually fixed my guitar, and learnt all about the truss rod at the same time

 

I generally work on my own unless I'm lazy. There isn't much to a truss rod, but I've seen people screw up and snap them.

 

One thing to remember is that ALL strings stretch. My favorite brand for my 12 string costs me $35 a set 20 years ago. They stretch too.
That's a good point about the action too. Could be a loose Nut or Bridge too.
Most of us can work on our own.

 

Yeah, I usually stretch my strings before I tune them. That way they won't go out of tune so much later on.

 

Yeah, but it also depends on the quality of your machines. I prefer sealed, pre lubed because of the Dusty environment I live in.

 

I use open back waverly turners on my Martin and I have grovers on my 12 string. Surprisingly, I've never had any problem at all with the waverly tuners and I play outside all the time. It's generally humid here. I usually play outside once in a while to help it get used to the climate, outside and inside. Around here it's really extreme... dry in winter, humid as hell in the summer, so, they really have to get used to the changes. Of course, I use a humidifier, but camping here in Virginia and playing at a two and a half day outdoor folk/bluegrass festival in September/October can really screw up the tunings and make for cracks when I get back home if it's not used to it. It's really irritating, but I have to test methods like that.

 

mine rattle too

 

Weather really has that much of an impact on guitars?

 

significant imbalances in temperature can make guitars do weird things, ie. going out of tune in the heat, or strings being prone to breaking in the cold... among other things
dry air can also do alot of harm to acoustic guitars, which is why humidifiers should be used when applicable